Intruder who stabbed man during break-in was just freed for similar crime, GA police say
A man accused of a violent home invasion at an Atlanta-area home on Thursday was freed from jail a few weeks earlier on a similar crime, Georgia authorities said.
Brookhaven police arrested 56-year-old Jimmy David Mills after they said he broke into a home and stabbed the homeowner multiple times as the man rushed to his wife’s defense, according to a Friday post on the department’s Facebook page.
Mills, whom police describe as a “repeat offender,” fled the scene but was caught, officials said. He’s now charged with aggravated assault, home invasion, criminal attempt to commit burglary, and possession of a knife during the commission of a crime, police said.
Authorities said the incident began when Mills confronted the female homeowner as she showered. The woman’s husband then approached Mills, who stabbed him in the face and stomach, according to Brookhaven police. The homeowner was treated at a local hospital and released.
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The couple’s baby, who was in another room at the time of the attack, was unharmed, authorities said.
The Sept. 17 incident isn’t Mills’ first brush with the law. Police said he was released from prison on Aug. 3 and on parole in a break-in with “extraordinary similarity” to the one he’s accused of committing at the home in Brookhaven.
“The Brookhaven Police Department typically doesn’t reveal information about prior offenses committed by arrestees,” officials said in the release. “In this case, however, the extraordinary similarity between this case and a 2015 Brookhaven home invasion demands an exception to that practice.”
Mills was sentenced to eight to 15 years in prison in an April 2015 attack, for which he was convicted of breaking into a condo armed with a knife before assaulting two women. Authorities said the condo, also in Brookhaven, is less than one mile from the site of Thursday’s incident.
“In that case, Mills was also arrested a short distance from the crime scene by responding Brookhaven Police Officers,” the department said.
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